Re: auctex + texlive = problems

[David Kastrup]

Garglemonster <garglemonster@my-deja.com> writes:

> >>>>> "Kai" == Kai Großjohann <kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de> writes:
> 
>     Kai> Garglemonster <garglemonster@my-deja.com> writes:
>     >> i recently switched my laptop over to texlive from tetex.  now
>     >> i find that i can't get auctex to compile latex files unless i
>     >> start emacs from a terminal window command prompt.  (it tells
>     >> me it can't find the latex binary) i've used customise to set
>     >> up the latex commands to reflect the locations of the new
>     >> binaries.  i have TEXINPUTS, TEXMF and TEX_PATH set in my
>     >> .bashrc.  what am i forgetting?
> 
>     Kai> Maybe $PATH?
> 
> i have stuff set up like this in my .bashrc :
> 
> FOO_PATH=/blah/blah:/usr/blah/blah
> BAR_PATH=/yadda/yadda:/usr/yadda/yadda:/usr/local/yadda/yadda
> PATH=$FOO_PATH:$BAR_PATH
> 
> checked again, and i haven't forgotten to add any of the relevant
> $TEX_STUFF.  however, just in case anyone was worried, i don't think
> this is an emacs/auctex problem since i've discovered that i can no
> longer compile latex files in console.  (this is on slackware linux 9)
> things do work on an rxvt console in x, though.  problem must be
> elsewhere.

man bash

and read about what files are read into what shells at what time.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum